Sporting seersucker and a summer beverage, Keene reflected on the euro crisis and the lightning-fast, pithy analysis offered by the twitter vigilantes: the bloggers, the reporters, and the academics who tweet out the first reaction to news seconds after major news breaks.

"It was stunning, just stunning Saturday, to watch digital media in full force," he wrote. "The Internet-first crew pummeled Main Stream Media with immediate paragraphs of perspective, then delivered substantial and smart articles as MSM issued tentative first reporting."